I was devoting all of my reading time to SW books to keep up. I needed more variety.
Besides, after the third "Leia and Han's kids are kidnapped right out from under the nose of their fearsome protector Chewey" plot if figured I'd had enough.
Agree that the number of Star Wars books has increased considerably. Though actually find the ones published by Bantam Spectra (which includes almost all of the Solo children being kidnapped books) to be of higher quality than the loads of trash currently being churned out by LucasBooks (DelRey), with the exception of those by Timothy Zahn.