34. The method of claim 18 further comprising the step of assisting in publication of the literary work when predetermined reader-satisfaction criteria are established.
18. A method for providing on-line evaluation of authored literary work for potential publication of the work comprising the steps of: receiving a portion of a literary work from an author to be reviewed via an Internet communication from a remote computer system; storing the portion of the literary work along with other portions of other literary works for review at a host computer system, said host computer comprising a processor for performing the steps of: receiving a request from a reader to review the portion of the literary work; presenting one of the portions of the literary work to the reader based on the reader's request electronically over a network; implementing at least one security mechanism to limits the ability of users to misappropriate credit for the portion of literary work when the literary work were to be resubmitted by another author including a timestamp associated with a time of first receipt of the portion of literary work from the author for resolving disputes regarding original authorship; receiving an evaluation of the portion of literary work from the reader and associated with the portion of the literary work; determining whether the portion of literary work meets a predetermined reader-satisfaction criteria during a first level review, the first level review being one of multiple levels of review; determining whether the literary work has been reviewed by a predetermined number of reviewers from a plurality of reviewer demographics; and deciding to publish the literary work when the predetermined reader-satisfaction criteria is met and when the literary work has been reviewed by a predetermined number of reviewers from a plurality of reviewer demographics.