FWIW, it has happened [1]. I think it's a coordination problem - if everyone moves, you can take the reputation along, but if you alone move, you bear the cost.

FWIW, it has happened [1]. I think it's a coordination problem - if everyone moves, you can take the reputation along, but if you alone move, you bear the cost. In the example of the Journal of Algorithms, the whole editorial board resigned to start ACM Transactions on Algorithms with a not-for-profit publisher, but that only happened because the founder of the journal, nestor Don Knuth himself, got so fed up with Elsevier that he managed to prod everyone along. So, yes, it is possible, and it happens far too rarely, and I wish top people in their field would instigate it more often. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elsevier#Resignation_of_editorial_boards https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elsevier#Resignation_of_editor...