I think this is becoming a solved problem, as open-access Xrxiv-based pre-print journals are becoming commonplace, I feel like the competitive drive to publish is now being supplanted by the need to have prior validation from your peers, who can submit their comments and contributions to it.
Science is and I believe forever will be a community effort, and if publishers or textbook-pushing professors try to change that, well then researchers will find and make other means to share their work with their peers.