Do the Templates and Themes for iBooks Author include the flip page animation?

Well, this question is concern about something similar asked by romondodavis on 28-mar-2012 (https://discussions.apple.com/message/17981772#17981772) and also answered by K T.
So my question refers to know if when buying the Templates and Themes for iBooks Author the curl/turn/flip animation is included with them or should I have to buy necessary Pages so I can generate those industry standard e-pubs as K T suggests in order to get the turn page animation enabled by default?
Thanks in advance
Alex

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</plist>
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OK-here oare my modified plists. They work for me to allow the use of the new frames I hope you find them useful
1) Right click on the ibook author icon under applications and show package contents
2) Navigate to Contents:Resources and make a copy of KFGraphicInspectorFrames.plist ; SLGraphicInspectorFrames.plist and KFGraphicInspectorSmartStrokes.plist.
3) Copy the plists below into your Resources folder.
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http://www.box.com/s/fr6erqe4yt05fyojyzi2
http://www.box.com/s/eh0bk13h33uidfayhunx
http://www.box.com/s/qx2bjeytgr9a260rprp6
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