The possibility does occur to me, though, that the reason the EU has put out so many books is that they do realize how prequel-era minded Lucas has become with his own entries into the property. Granted, there have been plenty of PT-era EU, but there still have been recent books following Luke and co. Maybe they are going too far, but I can't help think that they realize that there is a section of fandom (like us) that is being neglected by the Lucas machine and never-ending churning out of Clone Wars-era movies, TV shows, and other merchandise.