diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 22a1986e2..42f548179 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -38,6 +38,7 @@ tags
 .stgit*
 doc/protocol.html
 doc/protocol
+doc/user
 doc/api
 test/software_volume
 test/run_decoder
diff --git a/Makefile.am b/Makefile.am
index 0b1c5ef67..6133fc7c9 100644
--- a/Makefile.am
+++ b/Makefile.am
@@ -614,9 +614,12 @@ if ENABLE_DOCUMENTATION
 protocoldir = $(docdir)/protocol
 protocol_DATA = $(wildcard doc/protocol/*.html)
 
+userdir = $(docdir)/user
+user_DATA = $(wildcard doc/user/*.html)
+
 if HAVE_XMLTO
 
-DOCBOOK_FILES = doc/protocol.xml
+DOCBOOK_FILES = doc/protocol.xml doc/user.xml
 DOCBOOK_HTML = $(patsubst %.xml,%/index.html,$(DOCBOOK_FILES))
 
 $(DOCBOOK_HTML): %/index.html: %.xml
diff --git a/doc/user.xml b/doc/user.xml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..f9a5ba12a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/doc/user.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,38 @@
+<?xml version='1.0' encoding="utf-8"?>
+<!DOCTYPE book PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.2//EN"
+               "docbook/dtd/xml/4.2/docbookx.dtd">
+<book>
+  <title>The Music Player Daemon - User's Manual</title>
+
+  <chapter>
+    <title>Introduction</title>
+
+    <para>
+    </para>
+  </chapter>
+
+  <chapter>
+    <title>Installation</title>
+
+    <section>
+      <title>Compiling from source</title>
+
+      <para>
+      </para>
+    </section>
+  </chapter>
+
+  <chapter>
+    <title>Configuration</title>
+
+    <para>
+    </para>
+  </chapter>
+
+  <chapter>
+    <title>Plugin reference</title>
+
+    <para>
+    </para>
+  </chapter>
+</book>