Via Moviepilot.com:

Greetings from a galaxy far far away! So with the release of Star Wars: The Force Awakens later this year, it’s understandable why more products like comics and a new animated show Star Wars: Rebels (2014) are being released prior to this.

Over at Disney, they’re wanting to expand the new Star Wars canonical universe, now that pretty much all books, comics, tv shows and video games that had different stories based in the same universe as our favourite heroes has been declared non-canon. So therefore is not a part of the on-screen Star Wars Universe we’ve seen and will see once again on December 18th, 2015.

The only canonical pieces of Star Wars that is a part of the overall plot are as follows;

All 6 Star Wars films
Star Wars: The Clone Wars
Lucasfilm, yeah the company that made Star Wars gave comment.

“This includes the six Star Wars episodes, and the many hours of content he developed and produced in The Clone Wars. These stories are the immovable objects of Star Wars history, the characters and events to which all other tales must align.”

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