diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 7141d8af5..824027d31 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
EPUBCheck
=========
-EPUBCheck is a tool to validate the conformance of EPUB publications against the EPUB specifications.
+EPUBCheck is the official conformance checker for EPUB publications.
EPUBCheck can be run as a standalone command-line tool or used as a Java library.
EPUBCheck is open source software, maintained by the [DAISY Consortium](http://www.daisy.org) on behalf of [W3C](https://www.w3.org/publishing/epubcheck_fundraising).
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 9764b0ee4..09418cc35 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -15,9 +15,8 @@
jar
- EPUBCheck :: Validation Tool for EPUB
- EPUBCheck is a tool to validate the conformance of EPUB publications against
- the EPUB specifications. EPUBCheck can be run as a standalone command-line tool or used
+ EPUBCheck :: the EPUB conformance checker
+ PUBCheck is the official conformance checker for EPUB publications. EPUBCheck can be run as a standalone command-line tool or used
as a Java library.
https://github.com/w3c/epubcheck
2007
diff --git a/src/main/assembly/README-dist.txt b/src/main/assembly/README-dist.txt
index 870e022b1..81ffee2c4 100644
--- a/src/main/assembly/README-dist.txt
+++ b/src/main/assembly/README-dist.txt
@@ -3,8 +3,7 @@ EPUBCheck
This folder contains the distribution of the EPUBCheck project.
-EPUBCheck is a tool to validate the conformance of EPUB publications against
-the EPUB specifications. EPUBCheck can be run as a standalone command-line tool
+EPUBCheck is the official conformance checker for EPUB publications. EPUBCheck can be run as a standalone command-line tool
or used as a Java library.
EPUBCheck is open source software, maintained by the DAISY Consortium on behalf