# Administration of who can create books

**URL:** <https://pressbooks.community/t/administration-of-who-can-create-books/917>\
**Category:** Permissions & Access Control\
**Created:** [April 25, 2019, 5:24pm UTC](https://pressbooks.community/t/administration-of-who-can-create-books/917 "2019-04-25T17:24:18Z")\
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**Author:** ![AndrewTurner](https://pressbooks.community/user_avatar/pressbooks.community/andrewturner/32/730_2.png) [@AndrewTurner](https://pressbooks.community/u/AndrewTurner)\
**Post date:** [April 25, 2019, 5:24pm UTC](https://pressbooks.community/t/administration-of-who-can-create-books/917/1 "2019-04-25T17:24:18Z")

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Hello!

It has come to my attention that those who are given subscriber accounts to a book within a network are able to create new books on the network if they would like. Is there a way to limit this ability? We would prefer to keep some tabs on the number of books created on our instance to prevent an malicious uses of our instance.

Thanks!

Andrew

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**Author:** ![dac.chartrand](https://pressbooks.community/user_avatar/pressbooks.community/dac.chartrand/32/152_2.png) [@dac.chartrand](https://pressbooks.community/u/dac.chartrand)\
**Post date:** [April 25, 2019, 5:49pm UTC](https://pressbooks.community/t/administration-of-who-can-create-books/917/2 "2019-04-25T17:49:28Z")

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Network Settings aka:  
`/wp-admin/network/settings.php`  
Pick: **User accounts may be registered.** _Instead of: Logged in users may register new sites_  
Then, superadmins can manually create books as needed.

Source: [https://docs.pressbooks.org/installation/](https://docs.pressbooks.org/installation/)

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**Author:** ![SteelWagstaff](https://pressbooks.community/user_avatar/pressbooks.community/steelwagstaff/32/1280_2.png) [@SteelWagstaff](https://pressbooks.community/u/SteelWagstaff)\
**Post date:** [April 25, 2019, 8:25pm UTC](https://pressbooks.community/t/administration-of-who-can-create-books/917/3 "2019-04-25T20:25:37Z")

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Hi Andrew,

Dac’s right. Currently the control is all or nothing. Either users on the network can register/create new sites, or they can’t (and network managers have to create all new books themselves). Very few network managers I’m aware of choose the latter, but it can be chosen. I’ve also written up a feature request that I think gets at the spirit of your question: [https://github.com/pressbooks/ideas/issues/181](https://github.com/pressbooks/ideas/issues/181). Feel free to comment/refine it if you like.