I for one hope not, this is also entirely opinion based.

I missed when the story was driven by the chronicles and news pieces of smaller events, not so grandiose like a Hollywood movie. Pre novel story telling was more akin to just living in the world of new eden with fallible human factions with relatively stable ideas/values and the very possible/realistic political conflicts that arise between them, along with everyday living and the complications that arise in a sometimes not so friendly atmosphere. It had a lot of smaller stories with more believable transitions instead of major plot reveals and gigantic shifts of epic proportions that shake the founding of everything, the novels on the other hand tend to very large stories and get off on twisting existing lore for shock value which usually damages current lore creating unbelievable relations due to the game "not changing" along with it. If we were to take up the novels (especially Templar one), who on earth would believe ishukone would have the same relations with the Caldari State, either trying to take over the whole state or breaking off from the state? Or the major ground shifting revelations and demystification around the dead races?

It's as if Eve is transitioning from a game of thrones story to super hero movie. Not that super hero based movies aren't enjoyable with its own intricacies but its a form of an appeal to the masses with a very Hollywood over the top form of storytelling with less concerns with plausible human reactions.

Again, just my opinion, I'm sure its no where near universal, while I was sharing why I am not a fan of the novels, I was curious if these are just fun fictions projects or if they are indeed wholeheartedly integrated into the EVE lore.

I asked this last night. They are cannon, but are not respected as much as other cannon.

I don't understand why they would give that much power to a single individual to reclassify the lore / ideas of each of the empires according to his whim/perspective compared to smaller story writers which had to accept the rules of the given environment and drive the story by character interaction, life conflicts, and political intrigue.

I don't understand the Ishukone thing. They aren't Patriot, they are Liberals so of course they would like to take the Liberal bloc from its current status to the power behind the State, either that or break off and retain their own sense of individuality.