Stephen,
This is a bit of apples and oranges. I don’t think you can compare book PDA with articles. A question: If ILL needs to pay for an article for a patron, does it become available to all library patrons?
Except for this development with Overdrive, from Library Journal:
Kansas State Librarian Goes Eyeball to Eyeball with OverDrive in Contract Talks http://bit.ly/gjed4B