Haha, C3PX is cracking me up in this thread. Maybe a couple of you think he is being overly-cynical about the whole thing, but, if you think about it, that's exactly what it is. George doesn't want to have to bother keeping track of all these separate stories or limiting his story to the rules set forth by other authors, so he dismisses it, but he still wants to legitimize it so people won't think they're wasting their money, so that's why there are all these different levels of canon. That's not saying I haven't enjoyed EU, but if you honestly think it's anything more than a marketing push, you're seriously deluding yourselves.