TV's Frink said:
I remember reading the first Jedi Academy book. Thought it was terrible.
Beginning of the end. I think I read them out of lack of anything else around at the time. I guess they sold enough of them to fans like me to open the floodgates to market saturation.
I really believed the prequels would put an end to all the drivel and raise the bar high. Hindsight, eh.