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Like others mentioned, I see an e-book as a static thing, once and done. Websites can be static but their value is in being dynamic and timely.
I wrote a niche topic blog some years ago. Looking at the stats now I see I got to around 60K views a year for three years while I stayed active on it (years 2010-2012). It dropped to roughly 30K for two years right after I stopped updating it and a decline started in 2015 toward, my guess, 15K views this year.
The information there has as much value today as it did when I started (detailed a specific vintage vehicle restoration) but websites need to stay fresh. You have a real dialog with your readers, or at least you can. E-books do not have quite that same burden.
If I wrote an e-book instead I'd expect sales volume to depend entirely on my marketing of it.
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