Exhibit  3(i)

                            CERTIFICATE OF AMENDMENT
                                     OF THE
                          CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION
                                       OF
                             JOHN WILEY & SONS, INC.

                Under Section 805 of the Business Corporation Law

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          It is hereby certified that:

          FIRST:  The original name of the corporation is JOHN WILEY & SONS. The
current name of the corporation is JOHN WILEY & SONS, INC.

          SECOND:  The Certificate of Incorporation of the corporation was filed
by the Department of State on January 15, 1904.

          THIRD:  The  Amendment  of the  Certificate  of  Incorporation  of the
corporation effected by this Certificate of Amendment is as follows: To increase
the aggregate number of shares of capital stock which the corporation shall have
authority  to  issue  from  Forty-four  Million   (44,000,000)  to  One  Hundred
Twenty-eight  Million  (128,000,000)  by authorizing an additional Sixty Million
(60,000,000)  shares  of Class A Common  Stock  with a par  value of One  Dollar
($1.00) per share, and an additional  Twenty-four Million (24,000,000) shares of
Class B Common Stock with a par value of One Dollar ($1.00) per share.

          FOURTH:  To accomplish the foregoing  amendment,  Article THIRD of the
Certificate of Incorporation, relating to the number of shares of all classes of
capital stock which the  corporation  shall have  authority to issue,  is hereby
amended to read as follows: The total number of shares of all classes of capital
stock  which  the  corporation  shall  have  authority  to issue is One  Hundred
Twenty-eight Million (128,000,000) shares, consisting of Two Million (2,000,000)
shares of  Preferred  Stock  with a par value of One Dollar  ($1.00)  per share,
Ninety Million  (90,000,000)  shares of Class A Common Stock with a par value of
One Dollar ($1.00) per share,  and  Thirty-six  Million  (36,000,000)  shares of
Class B Common Stock with a par value of One Dollar ($1.00) per share.

          FIFTH: The foregoing  Amendment of the Certificate of Incorporation of
the  corporation was authorized by a vote of the Board of Directors at a meeting
held on June  25,  1998,  followed  by the  vote of the  holders  of at  least a
majority of all of the outstanding shares of the corporation entitled to vote on
the said  Amendment  of the  Certificate  of  Incorporation  at a meeting of the
shareholders held on September 17, 1998.



          IN WITNESS  WHEREOF,  we have subscribed this document on the date set
forth below,  and do hereby  affirm,  under the  penalties of perjury,  that the
statements contained therein have been examined by us and are true and correct.

September 30, 1998

                                           By       /s/Robert D. Wilder
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                                                    Robert D. Wilder
                                                    Executive Vice President and
                                                    Chief Financial Officer

                                            By       /s/Josephine Bacchi
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                                                     Josephine Bacchi
                                                     Corporate Secretary