To provide a literary work publishing method and a literary work publishing system which reduce the burden of an author at the time of publishing a literary work and meanwhile, can also reduce a risk that the publisher of the literary work has to take.

As a method for publishing the literary work, the literary work registered preliminarily in a literary work information database 110 is released to the public through the Internet, and investors are invited to the literary work released to the public. The literary work is published on the basis of the fact that the investment fund meets a prescribed publishing condition of the literary work. A part of a profit obtained by selling the published literary work is distributed to the investors as a dividend.