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http://www.nerdist.com/2014/04/lucasfilm-announces-the-future-of-the-star-wars-expanded-universe/

In short, the original EU is dead as of right now and a new unified canon will be in it's place. They might be keeping the Old Republic stuff because that came "before" the current setting. So all the Stackpole books including Rogue Squadron and I, Jedi, The Courtship of Princess Leia, Splinter of the Mind's Eye, Kyle Katarn, Jan Ors and the rest of the "Dark Forces" crew, Mara Jade, and any million other characters from books, movies and games are gone. They'll still be in print (the books at least) via demand under the Legends series, but I'd expect that to rack the price up. So if you have favorite Star Wars EU books, you need to hop on Amazon and buy them NOW before the out of print scares really get rolling.

Curse you mouse! Cuuuuuuuuuuuuuuurse you!

Or more accurately: http://nooooooooooooooo.com/

On the plus side the Jedi Academy trilogy is now non-canon.

Well, Way to kill your fan base Mouse

There's plenty of bad works being purged that are canon though..

Could be good and bad.

I mean I always thought it was kind of stupid how Star Wars had "canon cannon" and "kind-of canon cannon" staring awkwardly at each other. That said, I suppose it was probably rather too late to fix that by this point without making a bad business decision.

There's already a 5-page thread on this, with much raging. http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/120/591342.page#6767317