diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index c05a4f57c..f712bd65e 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ This is a fork of the original [turndown-plugin-gfm](https://github.com/domchris
 
 - Always render tables even they don't have a header.
 - Don't render the border of tables that contain other tables (frequent for websites that do the layout using tables). Only render the inner tables, if any, and if they also don't contain other tables.
+- Replace newlines (`\n`) with `<br>` inside table cells so that multi-line content is displayed correctly as Markdown.
 
 ## Installation
 
diff --git a/publish.sh b/publish.sh
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..b6b7faee6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/publish.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+npm version patch
+npm publish
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/src/tables.js b/src/tables.js
index 7e9820319..8b782dc72 100644
--- a/src/tables.js
+++ b/src/tables.js
@@ -99,7 +99,7 @@ function cell (content, node) {
   var index = indexOf.call(node.parentNode.childNodes, node)
   var prefix = ' '
   if (index === 0) prefix = '| '
-  return prefix + content + ' |'
+  return prefix + content.trim().replace(/[\n\r]/g, "<br>") + ' |'
 }
 
 function nodeContainsTable(node) {