diff --git a/src/libprs500/__init__.py b/src/libprs500/__init__.py
index 6eac0b89bd..9ce0dc8ba3 100644
--- a/src/libprs500/__init__.py
+++ b/src/libprs500/__init__.py
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@
 ##    with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc.,
 ##    51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA.
 ''' E-book management software'''
-__version__   = "0.3.60"
+__version__   = "0.3.61"
 __docformat__ = "epytext"
 __author__    = "Kovid Goyal <kovid@kovidgoyal.net>"
 __appname__   = 'libprs500'
diff --git a/src/libprs500/ebooks/lrf/html/convert_from.py b/src/libprs500/ebooks/lrf/html/convert_from.py
index d475d274fc..c4bbaaf8f5 100644
--- a/src/libprs500/ebooks/lrf/html/convert_from.py
+++ b/src/libprs500/ebooks/lrf/html/convert_from.py
@@ -229,8 +229,8 @@ class HTMLConverter(object):
                         (re.compile(r"<\s*style.*?>(.*?)<\/\s*style\s*>", re.DOTALL|re.IGNORECASE),
                          lambda match: match.group().replace('<!--', '').replace('-->', '')),
                          # remove <p> tags from within <a> tags
-                        (re.compile(r'<a.*?>.*?(<p.*?>)', re.DOTALL|re.IGNORECASE),
-                         lambda match: match.group().replace(match.group(1), '')),
+                        (re.compile(r'<a.*?>(.*?)</a\s*>', re.DOTALL|re.IGNORECASE),
+                         lambda match: re.compile(r'<.*?p.*?>', re.IGNORECASE).sub('', match.group())),
                          ]
     # Fix Baen markup
     BAEN_SANCTIFY = [(re.compile(r'<\s*[Aa]\s+id="p[0-9]+"\s+name="p[0-9]+"\s*>\s*<\/[Aa]>'),