Exhibit 3.8


                            CERTIFICATE OF AMENDMENT
                                       OF
                          CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION

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      Intertec Publishing Corporation, a corporation organized and existing
under and by virtue of the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware,
DOES HEREBY CERTIFY:

      FIRST: That the Board of Directors of said corporation at a meeting duly
held, adopted a resolution proposing and declaring advisable the following
amendment to the Certificate of Incorporation of said corporation:

            RESOLVED, that the Certificate of Incorporation of Intertec
      Publishing Corporation be amended by changing the First Article thereof so
      that, as amended, said Article shall be and read as follows: "The name of
      the corporation shall be PRIMEDIA Intertec Corporation."

      SECOND: That in lieu of a meeting and vote of stockholders, the
stockholders have given unanimous written consent to said amendment in
accordance with the provisions of Section 228 of the General Corporation Law of
the State of Delaware.

      THIRD: That the aforesaid amendment was duly adopted in accordance with
the applicable provisions of sections 242 and 228 of the General Corporation Law
of the State of Delaware.