I don't doubt that some like it, and that it's an important option to have, but likewise it is important to offer the ability to turn it off, or you will lose people like me that will outright refuse to deal with your books if I have to suffer through page flipping animations. I've discarded dozens (and this is not an exaggeration) e-book readers over page-flipping behaviour, because when dealing with e-books, page flipping behaviour is one of the most noticeable UI behaviours.
I car about pretty much these things in an e-book reader: page-flipping behaviour, speed, text-zoom/reflow, ability to set contrast freely (including invert to light on black background), and well rendered/readable fonts. Everything else is secondary. Animations and interactivity can be fun, but a reader that fails on any of those items is a reader I'll never use.