The book is remarkable sheerly as a publishing phenomenon. In only two years, sales here have exceeded the 40,000 copies sold in America over six years. Its publishers, who hadn't thought much on the book to begin with, were flabbergasted.
從現象上來看，《前世今生》在台灣問世短短兩年間的發行量，就超過美國六年累積的四十萬冊，令原來不看好它的出版社跌破眼鏡。