SilverWook said:

Why 45 years though? It's only been thirty since ROTJ came out. Let's not make our heroes older than they are already! ;)

45 years since the original 1977 film, which is where the books are up to now. Sorry, should've specified. It will have been 38 years since principal photography on Star Wars when Episode VII starts shooting next year. They'd only be bumping things up a few more years.

Also, keep in mind that while there are three years between A New Hope and Empire, Jedi only takes place another year later. They didn't spend three years flying around the galaxy like Mort/Lando said they should in the Family Guy parody of Empire.

Anyway, I don't see Lucasfilm rebooting the post-Jedi EU. It would be much cleaner and more natural to just set the original story of Episode VII whenever they're at now in the books.